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I have been trying to play superleo's Reference 2: Blu-ray Demo Disc via a WD external hard drive and have been having problems with the menu not working. I followed the advice from the above post and the menu system is working properly...

I too will be running my 103 into a Pioneer Elite VSX 70 - do the Oppo and Pioneer play nice?

They play perfectly together. Only thing I ever came across was when streaming from PS3 media server after a FF or a RW it takes a second or two for the audio to kick back in. Never on BD or movies from the external drive though, just streaming HUGE files. You'll be good to go-

They play perfectly together. Only thing I ever came across was when streaming from PS3 media server after a FF or a RW it takes a second or two for the audio to kick back in. Never on BD or movies from the external drive though, just streaming HUGE files. You'll be good to go-

Thank you. Good to hear. My system will be pretty basic....Oppo 103 into Epson 6030 and Oppo 103 into Pioneer Elite AVR. I have a ROKU that will go into the Oppo 103 but no gaming or Apple TV. Pretty simple.

Didn't see a lot of improvement in DVD video from the Pioneer. PerhapsI need to play with the settings to adjust video out.

Audio was pretty good overall. But I don't hear audio out from the back speakers. The Pioneer would use those channels on DTS-HD BD discs. Perhaps there are some settings I need to adjust. This wasn't apparent in the menus. The Pioneer 51FD had an option to test out all the speakers which the Oppo doesn't seem to have.

What struck me as odd was that Netflix streamed video from Oppo was grainy. I had connected the Oppo to my cable modem so network bandwidth was good. I switched to AppleTV to stream Netflix ( connected to HDMI input on Oppo) and the video was very good. So what is the difference between streaming Netflix on AppleTV vs. Oppo?

I was thinking of getting rid of my AppleTV but looks like I need to keep it.

Audio was pretty good overall. But I don't hear audio out from the back speakers. The Pioneer would use those channels on DTS-HD BD discs. Perhaps there are some settings I need to adjust. This wasn't apparent in the menus.

Audio processing in the Setup menu, then select Speaker Configuration. The 7.1 setup should be selected to get your back speakers.

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The Pioneer 51FD had an option to test out all the speakers which the Oppo doesn't seem to have.

Again, in Speaker Configuration. If the "test tone" button is lit up, as you move around your speakers using the arrow keys to navigate, there will be a test tone emitted from the selected speaker.

I set up the Oppo last night retiring my Pioneer BDP-51FD, an excellent player overall but has been having issues playing DVDs lately.
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What struck me as odd was that Netflix streamed video from Oppo was grainy. I had connected the Oppo to my cable modem so network bandwidth was good. I switched to AppleTV to stream Netflix ( connected to HDMI input on Oppo) and the video was very good. So what is the difference between streaming Netflix on AppleTV vs. Oppo?

I was thinking of getting rid of my AppleTV but looks like I need to keep it.

Guys, am new to Oppo products. But I like most of you want the best Video and sound possible at all times. I know the oppo BDP-103 will do an excellent job with blu ray disks so this is my question. I have a Samsung PN60F8500 display and Direct TV and I want the best picture I can get will the Oppo unconvert the Direct TV feed to 1080P. Will it work on premium channels like HBO, Showtime. Thank you for your feed back!!

Guys, am new to Oppo products. But I like most of you want the best Video and sound possible at all times. I know the oppo BDP-103 will do an excellent job with blu ray disks so this is my question. I have a Samsung PN60F8500 display and Direct TV and I want the best picture I can get will the Oppo unconvert the Direct TV feed to 1080P. Will it work on premium channels like HBO, Showtime. Thank you for your feed back!!

Your 1080p tv will always upconvert/de-interlace to 1080p on its own. You just have to decide whether you think the 103 will do a better job at the upconversion (can you tell a difference?). If you want to test it, you'll need to set your cable box to output "native" video, then run its hdmi output into your 103, then out to your tv. For me, I can't see much of a difference with native 1080i and 720P broadcasts (between a 103/105 and my tv, a 2013 Samsung plasma; different size than yours). I do see more picture sharpness with 480i programming, though.

Guys, am new to Oppo products. But I like most of you want the best Video and sound possible at all times. I know the oppo BDP-103 will do an excellent job with blu ray disks so this is my question. I have a Samsung PN60F8500 display and Direct TV and I want the best picture I can get will the Oppo unconvert the Direct TV feed to 1080P. Will it work on premium channels like HBO, Showtime. Thank you for your feed back!!

When my HT is installed next week, I too will be running my Direct TV into the Oppo 103 to my AVR to my Epson projector.

Has anyone with a 103 had a problem playing the new Season 1 bluray of HBO's Banshee? My Oppo 83 (with the latest firmware) will play the menu but not the episodes themselves. It frequently has issues with HBO discs (very slow loading, sometimes simply doesn't recognize an HBO disc has been inserted). I was thinking of buying a new Oppo (I prefer the more musical sound compared to the other players) but I'm getting concerned that Oppos seem to have way more issues with incompatible discs than the other players or PS3s I've used. I'm beginning to fear it won't even play the new season of GOT.

Has anyone with a 103 had a problem playing the new Season 1 bluray of HBO's Banshee? My Oppo 83 (with the latest firmware) will play the menu but not the episodes themselves. It frequently has issues with HBO discs (very slow loading, sometimes simply doesn't recognize an HBO disc has been inserted). I was thinking of buying a new Oppo (I prefer the more musical sound compared to the other players) but I'm getting concerned that Oppos seem to have way more issues with incompatible discs than the other players or PS3s I've used. I'm beginning to fear it won't even play the new season of GOT.

Most of Netflix's 'HD' movies use 5.1 channel Dolby Digital Plus audio complete with an 640Kbps Dolby Digital 'core', which are both 'lossy'.

You Marantz amp might not like decoding Dolby Digital at 640Kbps via SPDIF, it more likely favours the DVD standard bit-rate of 448Kbps...

Sorry, missed this connection to my original thread...

So, forgive my ignorance, this only affects that which would be sent over the optical cable through the Marantz? When the signal is sent through the multichannel analog connections through the Marantz this is issue would not take place?

So, forgive my ignorance, this only affects that which would be sent over the optical cable through the Marantz? When the signal is sent through the multichannel analog connections through the Marantz this is issue would not take place?

Thanks!

Tom

Because when you use the Oppo's analog outputs, it is the Oppo doing the decoding and not the Marantz. When you use the digital outputs, it is the Marantz doing the decoding and not the Oppo.

Because when you use the Oppo's analog outputs, it is the Oppo doing the decoding and not the Marantz. When you use the digital outputs, it is the Marantz doing the decoding and not the Oppo.

Not quite. If you are set to bitstream the Marantz will do the decoding. If you set the player to PCM, the Oppo does the decoding, even on digital outputs (HDMI, Coax, Optical). Now that will bring about different set of issues. Only HDMI will support multichannel PCM. Coax/optical is limited to 2 channel PCM.

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Because when you use the Oppo's analog outputs, it is the Oppo doing the decoding and not the Marantz. When you use the digital outputs, it is the Marantz doing the decoding and not the Oppo.

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Not quite. If you are set to bitstream the Marantz will do the decoding. If you set the player to PCM, the Oppo does the decoding, even on digital outputs (HDMI, Coax, Optical). Now that will bring about different set of issues. Only HDMI will support multichannel PCM. Coax/optical is limited to 2 channel PCM.

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This all makes sense...thanks very much for the clarification!

Speaking of a 'different set of issues', any advice on a worthy upgrade from a Marantz SR7300OSE? Just kidding...I know this is not the forum...

I just got a 103 installed. I see alot of people are having issues with setting up a smb share with windows. I'm having the same issue as far as it not accepting the user and password. I installed oshare which actually works fine with my 1080p mkvs with dts-hd audio.

Problem is they all have psg subtitles and i can hit subtitle button and see them as options, but when selected i never actually get the subtitles to show up. Any help would be great. Thanks